Endocrine System

Catalog description

This course is an integrated, multidisciplinary study of the endocrine system in health and disease. Emphasis is on pharmacology, pathology, nutrition, and microbiology as related to the diagnosis and clinical management of endocrine disorders. The course presents a multidimensional approach to the understanding of the most common clinical entities in endocrine disease. The course presents the pathophysiology, pharmaceutical or surgical treatments, and adult and pediatric presentations of endocrine diseases. A central format of the course is the presentation of clinical correlations. This format consists of presentation of clinical cases that range from the prototypical to the atypical. Students are given study questions to guide their study on critical components of the diagnosis or treatment of the clinical correlation cases.